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		benob 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ How is it different from mere syntactic sugar over the same programming concepts? What does it bring that C++ cannot do? Isn't it just a way of controlling the language vs using normative bodies?

cjj_swe 5 months ago [–]

Well for one, in addition to templates it has definition checked generics. That alone justifies it to me, but it's far from the only improvement.

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